For years we’ve had electric powered racing, whether it’s drag racing (NEDRA and the like), go-karts, motorcycles (TTXGP and the like) or cars (Formula E, Formula Lightning, etc). Electrically powered racers ran in separate classes, and often separate events, because while electric race vehicles might be fast enough they didn’t…
Darvill Racing has announced (on Friday) a historic agreement in which they will be the first electrically powered motorcycle racing team to compete directly against gasoline powered bikes in a regular road race. They’ll be competing in the “Southern 100 Road Races” which is an ACU/FIM sanctioned event held on…
Brammo announced today that Darvill Racing would be contesting the 2014 FIM eRoadRacing World Cup as a factory supported team. This is both great for Brammo, and the first sign that there will be a 2014 eRoadRacing series. Darville will be running with two “Factory-supported privateer Brammo machines”. One is…
Brammo, whom we know mostly for ultra-fast electric motorcycle prototypes, and reasonably fast electric street bikes, is also looking to build an electric sports car for plus-sized people. Ahem, like Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher. If Tesla Motors’ product plans seem eerily like the personal needs of CEO Elon Musk (first…
Shane Turpin, Empulse RR, Laguna Seca, 2013 eRoadRacing The gauntlet is thrown – let’s see if Formula E will pick it up. Brammo, the electric motorcycle company whose electric race bike, the Empulse RR, is among the top tier of electric superbikes, posted this on Facebook this morning: Spark-Renault SRT_01E…
From Facebook Just before Sunday’s eRoadRacing race in Indianapolis, Brian Wismann posted a long “here’s the latest from Team Brammo” on Facebook that gave some interesting details. First and most heartening is that the Brammo paddock had a constant stream of visitors “since Friday” which is typically a slow day. …
Browsing on Facebook I found this item posted by Brammo showing some pictures with them meeting Chip Yates at Thunderhill Raceway. Thunderhill is of course Brammo’s usual test track. Chip Yates is an AMA licensed racer, and in 2010-11 he had built an electric motorcycle meant for racing. He’d originally…
Mission Motors appears to be coming back into the business of building high performance electric motorcycles. They of course started out in that business, but backed away from it when the company nearly died a few years ago. There was a change of CEO at the time, and a change…
The 2013 eRoadRacing World Cup calendar that’s been published so far is incomplete, with the organizers claiming they’re working on confirming at least one more date in both Europe and North America. As it stands the published calendar shows 3 events on both continents, but I’d been told of a…
On Monday, Team Icon Brammo released images of the new livery (designed by Icon) that Steve Atlas and Eric Bostrom will be wearing during the 2013 season. The information release includes detailed pictures of not just the Empulse R, but the Empulse TTX, and shows both bikes in action dicing…
Brammo announced on Tuesday a historic agreement with the AFM allowing Brammo’s Empulse R, Empulse TTX and Empulse RR electric motorcycles to compete directly in AFM races. For the first time electric motorcycle racers will be able to compete for points and championship position in regular gas bike racing. The…
This teaser picture was posted by Brammo on Facebook showing a part of the Empulse TTX. It is based on Empulse R (as expected) so all the positive experience Empulse R owners are giving will be carrying over to the TTX. The Empulse TTX was announced in July 2011, the…
As arbitrary as our calendar is, this is a new year (by the way we reckon time) and, well, here’s my thoughts about what we’ll see in the coming year in electric racing. Overall I think we’ve seen great leaps over the last three years of electric racing, and I see that…
Virginia Tech isn’t the only TTXGP team getting ready for the 2013 season. Today, Brammo was at Thunderhill for a private track-day with Shelina Moreda and Eric Bostrom. Let’s try to not read too much into Steve Atlas not being there, okay? They had at the track Empulse R’s, Empulse…
Steve Atlas (Brammo) won the TTXGP 2012 North American Championship this weekend, while team-mate Eric Bostrom won the weekends race. Matt Kent (Virginia Tech) won in the TTX75 award group (7.5 kilowatt-hour battery pack), and Kenyon Kluge won in the eSuperStock award group. Steve Atlas, TTXGP North America Champion for…
